The BVB is happy about the first title of the season and the first exclamation point in the direction of FC Bayern. Not only the easy mistakes of the Bavarians, but also an assault by Joshua Kimmich on Jadon Sancho provide discussion material after the game. SOCCERSCORE has collected all votes and reactions around the Supercup on DAZN between Bavaria and Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund – FC Bayern Munich 2:0
Lucien Favre (coach Borussia Dortmund): “It was a very difficult game. Bavaria had 65 percent ball ownership. That’s too much. But we defended well, very compactly. We played the counterattacks very well. But we’ve lost too many balls, we have to be better.”
Marco Reus (Captain, Borussia Dortmund)…
… about the game: “It was a good start. It wasn’t the right benchmark for the season because both teams are still in preparation. It was a great game today with scoring chances on both sides. Bavaria must score at least one goal, but we were more effective and therefore deserved to win.”
… We want this competitive battle to be at a very high level. That’s where we need that quality. There will be hardness traps, but we are professionals enough and we have a goal.”
… about match winner Jadon Sancho: “When Sancho comes up to you in one-on-one, it’s brutally difficult. But he also has a lot to learn, as we have seen today. Especially defensive.”
… about the leading goal of Paco Alcacer: “The boy has an outstanding shooting technique. He worked a lot during the summer break. He was long injured at FC Barcelona and quite pissed off that he has not played so often in the last season. He worked incredibly hard during the summer break. That was his reward today.”
… about the defensive tasks of him and Paco Alcacer in the storm spearhead: “If Paco and I stay in front and say ‘have fun, guys’ it won’t work.
Sebastian Kehl (Head of BVB Licensed Players Department): “We are delighted. We were looking forward to the game and knew about the special explosiveness. We like to take the title with us because it will help us, give us momentum and carry on the euphoria. Especially at the second goal we countered extremely strong. We had some ways to counter it. We can be satisfied, but we know that we can do some things even better.”
Niko Kovac (coach FC Bayern Munich)…
… about the game: “We have lost the game. We’re sad about that. We played a good game, but not a very good one. We made two mistakes, Dortmund took advantage of them, so we are the loser. I’m not unhappy, of course it wasn’t a very good game. We must make better use of our opportunities and not play into the strengths of the Dortmund team. You can already see that the team wants to attack high and defend, of course we have to take care that the mail doesn’t get out in the back.”
… on the goals scored by the opponents: “We had too little ball loss before the goals scored by the opponents. We knew it would be very difficult here.”
… about Joshua Kimmich’s kick against Jadon Sancho: “I didn’t see the situation, so I can’t judge it. But Josh is one who certainly doesn’t do this on purpose.”
Manuel Neuer (captain FC Bayern Munich): “I liked the first half, we could have scored a goal. In the second half, we brought the Dortmund team into the game through our own mistakes. If we turned that off, we would have had a big chance of winning the game. We gave the balls here. We don’t have to be accused of anything, we put pressure on them. If we had been so consistent at the front, we would have got one or two more big chances. We are generally satisfied with the preparation.”
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern Munich)…
… about the game: “They deserved to win, but they weren’t better. I saw two very weak teams in the first half. Dortmund offered us many mistakes, the problem was that we did even more and Dortmund took advantage of them. Otherwise, it wasn’t a high level game because both teams made so many mistakes.”
… about his kick against Jadon Sancho: “It was an unfortunate situation. I tried to get the ball with my foot, and he put his foot in it. But I didn’t kick him and was angry that I got the yellow card because that wasn’t my intention.”
